Bill Spencer

Greg Smart's short life was over.

Now, as police try to find out who killed him, life for his young widow was about to enter a strange new reality.

And what happened next would raise questions about justice and fairness that are still being asked today.

A well-liked young man had been gunned down at home in a quiet New England town.

Bill Spencer, who now reports for NBC affiliate KPRC in Houston, was just starting out in New Hampshire when he picked up the story of who killed Greg Smart.

He has his whole life ahead of him.

He's a successful life insurance salesman.

He's got a beautiful young wife, and he has been, for some reason, shot to death at the doorstep of his own home.

Why?

Police were asking the same question and trying to learn more about Greg.

Sonya knew him well.

Greg was the life of the party.

He was always big dimples, smiling, having all the jokes and acting a little crazy.

Police learned that Greg met Pamela in New Hampshire about four years earlier when she was home for a holiday break from college.

She and Greg got along so well that he moved with her to Tallahassee, where Pamela was a sophomore in communications at Florida State.

He followed you there?

Yeah.

And we used to go a lot to the beach and travel.

She had been in a couple of my classes and she was walking and had a Bon Jovi t-shirt on.

That's when Amy Newman Bonzek met Pamela and Greg.